RE: Possibility to have more than one series of footnotes

[Steve Grathwohl <grath@math.duke.edu>]

Berend de Boer wrote:

> > I think he's referring to EDMAC, which was built as an extension to
> > plain but can be used with LaTeX as well.
>
>If it works with plain it should work with ConTeXt as well I think.
>
>But how does it look/work?
>
>ConTeXt has the concept of \startlocalfootnotes, but that's fine for
>footnotes in tables, things on one page, but probably not very usefull when
>page breaking is taking place.
>
>Groetjes,
>
>Berend. (-:

 From the EDMAC home page http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/edmac.html

"EDMAC is a program written as a set of plain TeX macros for formatting
complex critical editions.  You mark up your text and notes using the tags
provided by EDMAC, and then TeX will create a beautiful book for you with
the text line numbered, lemmata referred to by line-number, up to six
layers of notes at the bottom of the page (variants, testimonia, etc.), as
well as up to six sets of notes sent to appendices.  It is also possible to
control the layout of each layer of notes separately: single column, two-
or three-column, paragraphed, etc."

I played with it for a short while a few years ago when I toyed with 
the idea of offering to typeset a critical edition of Piers Plowman, 
but I left that for (in George Mallory's great phrase about Everest's 
Kangshung face) "other men, less wise." But it's a powerful tool.

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